wordmonger

A noun referring to a writer or speaker who uses language in a careless, pretentious, or overly elaborate way, often with little regard for actual meaning.

• 🇩🇪Substantiv, das einen Schriftsteller oder Redner bezeichnet, der Sprache nachlässig, anmaßend oder übermäßig geschwollen gebraucht, oft ohne wirkliches Interesse am eigentlichen Sinn.

1. Pretentious or careless writer C2 formal

   A writer who uses language in a showy, careless, or overly elaborate way, often with little regard for actual meaning or substance.

   • The critic dismissed the author as a mere wordmonger, more interested in style than substance.
   • He was a wordmonger, filling his articles with jargon and empty phrases.
   • Don't be a wordmonger; say what you mean clearly.

   🇩🇪Wortklauber

   Synonyme: gasbaghackscribblerverbiagewindbagwordsmith

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